The Lager House is Located at 1254 Michigan Avenue, three blocks East of old Tiger Stadium and two blocks West of MGM Grand.
This Week & beyond at
PJ's Lager House
1254 Michigan Ave
Corktown - Detroit
313.961.4668
www.pjslagerhouse.com
www.myspace.com/lagerhouse
All shows 21+ and no cover unless otherwise noted.
Monday, February 1
Tony Retka (of Tone & Niche) w/Mike Honson, Pretty Scary
10pm
Tonight, Tony Retka of Detroit's Tone & Niche will be performing a solo set. Tone & Niche is a guitar and violin duo that brews a refined, light-jangled, warm-toned folk with pensive, setting-sun piano accompaniments and shimmering beautiful violins, and Retka's solo material is sure to be right in line with this creativity. Mike Honson is from Illinois and wants you to know, above all, that there is just one thing in his life that is more important to him than any other thing in this world... Jesus Christ. This has the potential to become the most interesting $1 night ever. Pretty Scary opens.
Tuesday, February 2
Pub Quiz
8pm
Do you have useless knowledge? Do you like alcohol? Come try your hand at our increasingly popular Pub Quiz night! Pub Quiz starts at 8pm. Play with a team or play by yourself and if you're smart, you'll win prizes for you and your team!
Wednesday, February 3
Bamboo Shoots
10pm
There's something odd about Bamboo Shoots. Certainly a band of four brown-skinned boys whose collective faces look equally at home on a terrorist watchlist as any promotional poster is, well, unique. That all of the members are of Indian descent at a time when Indian culture is exploding globally is surely... noteworthy. "We gave up on fitting in a long time ago," states singer/guitarist Avir Mitra with a shrug. Mix innovative hooks and lean guitars with urban inspired beats and subtle world flavor, add a dash of Brooklyn cred but temper it with a lyrical openness - now you begin to get at the sound of Armour, their Epic Records debut. It's future-feeling and it's retro and now the band is touring in support of this brand-spanking new album.
Thursday, February 4
RELIEF: A Red Cross Benefit for Haiti w/The Mantons, Jeff Jablonski, Selfmeyi, Slow Giant, Flec -- A Performer of Pure Puzzling Precision, DJ Intercom For Evan
9pm
$5
100% of the proceeds from this show will go to the Red Cross' Haitian relief efforts. 150,000 dead, many still missing and injured -- you can help and have a fun night, all at the same time. PJ's Lager House aims for 100% transparency for our benefit shows and we never, ever take a cut from the proceeds. This beats credit card and "text here to donate $x" giving since cc companies will take their small cut regardless of what the "purchase" is. Please donate an extra few bucks if you've got it! This is a great night of music for a very important and relevant cause. Doors at 9pm; music starts at 9:30pm.
Not sure who's who or what's what? Here's some info about a couple of the bands: The Mantons are lean and mean. Nobody has ever given them an inch; they probably never will. That's because people are afraid of a band that tells it like it is. But, in the end, The Mantons Do The Thing That Must Be Done. They are Here, for You. Jam! Enjoy! Slow Giant is a Hamtramck trio akin to minimalist Peter & the Wolf or My Morning Jacket.
Friday, February 5
Voice of Anger CD Release show w/Hellmouth, I Am Cursed, Antisocial Degenerates, Final Assault $5
10pm
Voice of Anger is a hardcore punk band from the metro Detroit area. Voice of Anger originated in the mid 90s, broke up, then reformed 10 years later. After cycling through a few musicians, they now feel confident in their present most solid lineup ever! VoA has been fortunate enough to share the stage with artists like D.R.I., Hellmouth, and The Cro-Mags. The group is influenced by punk, crust, hardcore, and metal. The lyrical content is political and apocalyptic. The guitars are fast and heavy with pounding d-beat drumming, heavily distorted bass and growling angry vocals. Voice of Anger just completed their second DIY CD entitled "Prophets of Extinction." This CD is a split compilation with I Am Cursed and Burn The Hearse. Hellmouth is four guys who want to play fast, aggressive, heavy music. It's back to the brutal basic with this group—not metal. Not punk. Not hardcore. It's a crossover of all three designed to create a soundtrack for pain, misery and the end of existence. This is going to be a loud and fast night!
Saturday, February 6
Scarlet Oaks w/The Hounds Below, Flatfoot, Timothy Monger
10pm
$6
Scarlet Oaks wants to make you dance, cry and throw back a few in a Detroit parking lot. The more astute among you may recognize lead singer Steve McCauley from his previous group, Fifth Period Fever. The band presents one of the most consistently best times in Detroit and comes out with music that blends the working class heart of the Motor City with the twang of country music's past. The Hounds Below is a new group formed by Jason Stollsteimer of the Von Bondies. Its most current incarnation features Molly Jean of The Decks, Ben Luckett of The Readies, and Ben Collins of Lightning Love. The band injects a fresh vitality into the moonlit sounds of early rock and roll. Comprised of three guitars, bass, organ, and drums, the band utilizes a full range of dynamics, swelling from sparse to full, as directed by the mood of the song. All this provides a lush background for Stollsteimer's reverberating voice. Inspired by a classic era of music, the Hounds Below have an innovative sound--think Roy Orbison meets Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Whether live or recorded, their alluring melodies will captivate and haunt all who listen. Flatfoot was formed in East Lansing during the fall of 2000 by brothers Aaron and Jason Bales. They play rock and roll with some twang, pop sensibilities and punk energy. Opening the show will be Ann Arbor's Timothy Monger, a founding member and singer/songwriter for Michigan rock group Great Lakes Myth Society. He released his debut solo album "Summer Cherry Ghosts" in 2004. It was picked up by Trolley Bus Records in Japan in 2005. In that same year, Great Lakes Myth Society released their debut self-titled album. The band signed with Michigan indie Quack Media in 2006 and released their sophomore effort "Compass Rose Bouquet" in 2007. Following several successful tours, an appearence at SXSW and shows with Patti Smith, British Sea Power and The Hidden Cameras, GLMS released a single in early 2008. In 2009, Monger began performing solo again and is presently recording his second solo album with plans to tour following its release. This will be one of the first public appearances of his new backing band.
NEXT WEEK:
Monday, February 8
Ironclad w/Stressbomb, The Farleys
10pm
Ironclad is a raw party band from Ypsilanti. I suspect you'll find copious amounts of beer and whiskey at their house shows. Why not enjoy said beer and whiskey with the perfect soundtrack? They mix the sound of the Ramones and southern California. Stressbomb is a band that promotes truth and madness in the form of punk rock, thrash, metal, and hardcore. Chris Jones and Adam Allard got together in 2005 with a vision of a band dedicated to sincere songwriting, putting on wild live shows, viral fan led promotion, art influenced merchandise, and above all a work ethic stemmed from the early days of DIY hardcore. In 2006 the band worked with producer/musician Michale Graves (Misfits) and engineer/drummer Quincy (now in Murphys Law) for their self-released record, "Self Medicate," and were in the support slot on a dozen of Graves' east coast dates that same year. In 2007, as a four-piece with the addition of Jon Logan on lead guitar, they embarked on tour dates with American Distress throughout the east coast. Now they're back in town and ready to rock for Detroit. The Farleys are from downriver and are loud, rocking and probably what Iggy Pop would sound like by now if he had never done heroin.
Wednesday, February 10
The Afternoon Round w/Dolson
10pm
The Afternoon Round is a rock band. They make original music with guitars, drums, bass, keyboards and vocal chords, but their sound didn't just emerge as a phantom from the ether. Like all pop music, and indeed all human endeavors, the band is indebted to the past. From atop a solid foundation of the Beatles' pop sensibility, Whiskeytown's country tinged emotionalism, Wilco's creative tenacity, and Tom Petty's everyman appeal, The Afternoon Round has managed to become more than just the sum total of their influences. With an arsenal of memorable hooks, syrupy sweet harmonies, and subtle keyboard atmospherics combined with dynamic rhythmic backbone and plain spoken, back-porch Americana tones and lyrics; The Afternoon Round is poised to invade the hearts and minds of music fans everywhere. Anyone with the lingering taste of a dark and smokey dive bar in the pit of their stomach, the bittersweet melodies of drunken lamentation ringing in their ears, or just the plain old primal passion for rock n' roll coursing through their veins, should hear the Afternoon Round. Dolson opens.
Friday, February 12
The Satin Peaches w/Dooley Wilson
10pm
Of The Satin Peaches, NME says: "There's no way anyone could deny that the first single by these Detroit-raised avant-popsters is a thing of extreme beauty. Ivories are bashed, guitars fuzz in a vaguely garage-rock vein and someone starts to thing through the same over-distorted mic that Julian Casablancas patented five or os years ago. The whole thing builds and builds into something approaching mini-epic status." Check out Bill Holdship's 2009 Metrotimes cover story on them: http://metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13809. Hailing from the unlikely environs of South Toledo, Ohio, Dooley Wilson is among a rare breed of latter-day purveyors of “hard” Mississippi/Louisiana – styled blues. With an approach that is steeped in the tradition of his forebears, Wilson offers a combination of bottleneck/slide guitar virtuosity with a renegade intensity that is more at home in a seedy rock club than at a typical “blues society” venue. Accompanying Wilson on this night will be another slide guitarist, Todd Albright, affectionately known to some, unaffectionately known to others, as "The Little Bastard." Why? Well, perhaps you should come and find out. Albright is also a very skilled guitarist and this is a rare chance to see two of the Midwest's finest on stage together.
Saturday, February 13
800Beloved w/Bars of Gold
10pm
800Beloved is a three-piece from Suburbia, Michigan. Their electropop rock sound makes them sound as though they may have come out of Lower Manhattan 7 years ago, but the cleanliness of the lyrics means you know none of them have ever done heroin. Of 800Beloved, Indie Passion says: "The groups moniker, taken from a 1-800 telephone number, hints at the merger between two opposing themes - *800* representing the interest in popular cultures flimsiness while Beloved* alludes to the lyrical use of sacred, often dismal and ironically naive subject matter. Host to numerous contributors since the projects begining in September 2005, the current incarnation of the group, Anastasiya Metesheva, Jon Elkas and Lynch, performs selectively throughout the Midwest. From [debut LP "Bouquet" opening line, 'Let's kill everyone we know and hit the open road...' the eleven song album maintains a barrage of decadent one-liners amidst a whirlwind of glittery guitars and synthesizers. A sound that has claimed the affections of both teenage audiences and Post-punk/Shoegaze devotees, 800 has also earned praise for the provocative formats in which they have leaked songs from their debut-formats that have included, pill-shaped USB drives concealed within bags of candy and Cassingles." Bars of Gold has a rhythmically synth sound - beats beats beats with an interspersion of keys.
MORE!
Feb. 14: Snakewing w/Year of the Pig
Feb. 18: The Ultrasounds w/Over My Dead Body, Telecollision
Feb. 20: Big Livy w/Tone & Niche, Mike Galbraith - $5
Feb. 23: Electric Flower w/Isles of ESP
Feb. 24: Mixo Presents "Beatz 2 Rhymez"
Feb. 25: Motorcityrocks.com Benefit show
Feb. 26: So Cow
Feb. 27: Danjee Flesh Nation w/The Baptist Church
Mar. 2: GreyMarket w/Bamboo Shoots
Mar. 11: Beast In The Field
Mar. 17: St. Patrick's Day w/Dirt Road Logic, Brandon Calhoon, Bixy Lutz, John Holk & the Sequins
Mar. 18: Scout Niblett
Mar. 22: Boats
Mar. 24: Darkred w/Lab Partners
Mar. 31: Mixo Presents "Beatz 2 Rhymez" Beat Battle
April 7: Leopold and His Fiction
April 9: Joe Jack Talcum w/Samuel Locke Ward & the Boohoos, The High Strung - $7
April 10: Child Bite w/Mi Ami, DJ Forest Juziuk - $5
April 24: The Zone Radio 8th Anniversary Party
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